Gates open: Two hours before first post every day except 2 1/2 hours before on Opening Day and Pacific Classic Day.

Admission: $6 for Stretch Run (grandstand) and infield ($10 on opening day). Active military and dependents are free every day with ID. Clubhouse admission is $10 ($20 on Opening Day). Diamond Club members (free to join) are admitted free on Wednesdays (except Opening Day) and pay half-price on all other days. Diamond Club Seniors (62 and over) receive free Stretch Run admission every Thursday. Children 17 and under are free but must be accompanied by parent or guardian. Free program with every paid admission.

Early Bird Wagering: 9-10 a.m. each racing day except Fridays when it continues until 1 p.m.

DEL MAR  Trainer John Sadler said today that Holy Candy, the 3-year-old colt owned by Rancho Santa Fe’s Jenny Craig and Donkey Island Stable Racing, doesn’t appear to have a serious injury and will be given some time off.

Jockey Garrett Gomez pulled up Holy Candy just ahead of the wire in the ninth race, the second division of the Oceanside Stakes on the Jimmy Durante Turf Course. Julio Canani’s My Best Brother won the race, but Holy Candy never fired and finished last in the eight-horse field.

“We X-rayed him last night and the X-rays were clean,” Sadler said. “We might be dealing with a possible foot injury or a soft-tissue thing. We don’t have a real diagnosis yet, but he’s going to be back another day. He’ll probably get some time off. How much, we just don’t know yet. It’s still too preliminary. We don’t know the exact thing yet. We’ll do some diagnostic tests and we’ll know more. The good news is we’ll rest him and bring him back and figure it out from there.”

Though the news was somewhat upbeat at Sadler’s barn, that wasn’t the case Thursday at two other barns the day after the Del Mar racetrack’s opening day set a fourth straight attendance record for the 75-year-old track.

In the same race, the fifth, that Sadler had two of his 2-year-old colts, Ballard Ruler and Life a Riley, run 1-2, trainer David Hofmans lost a 2-year-old ridgling, Playful Council. Jockey Patrick Valenzuela pulled the colt up on the backstretch of the fifth race at 5 furlongs, but it was too late. Playful Council broke his left leg and had to be euthanized.

Brent Fabbri, assistant trainer for Hofmans, said Playful Council had not shown any signs of trouble.

“(Playful Council) was running really well, and it’s very disappointing,” said Fabbri, who is Hofmans nephew. Playful Council is owned by Karen and Mickey Taylor, who owned Seattle Slew. They also have another talented 2-year-old, State Capital, who is entered in today’s fourth race, a $40,000 maiden claiming race at 5½ furlongs.

Playful Council had run three times at Betfair Hollywood Park. He finished fourth after showing early speed on June 10, second on May 19 and fifth back on April 29. He was by Council Member and a grandson of Seattle Slew’s. He won $14,560 in his short career.

Playful Council was the first horse to be euthanized after being injured in racing at Del Mar, but another colt had to be euthanized this morning after suffering a broken leg during a workout.

AK Karma, a 3-year-old Cal-bred colt by Officer, had just crossed the wire after a work, but then pulled up lame,” according to trainer Jeff Bonde.

“He separated sesamoids in a front leg,” Bonde said. “Just a tough luck horse. He had a throat issue earlier in the year, but he had surgery and was doing fine. Colt never had a pimple outside of that. Just tough luck.”